PEOPLE power has stopped plans for a waste transfer recycling centre in Bidford.

County councillors went against officers' recommendations to approve the proposal on Thursday after more than 240 residents and neighbouring companies wrote to object to plans to build the centre, complete with a skip hire workshop, on the Waterloo Industrial Estate.

The Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) also disputed the plans for the centre on Wellington Road, submitted by company MRW.

Bidford Parish Council clerk Elizabeth Kidner, who attended the meeting, said planning councillors on the regulatory committee refused it based on many of the objections raised by residents, including the amounts of dust, noise and traffic pollution which could be generated by the recycling centre.

"We're very pleased with the result," she said.

"We had tremendous support from all the villagers who wrote letters to the county objecting to the plan," she added.

More than 50 residents took part in a peaceful protest on August 27 when councillors went to visit the site before the decision was made.

And about 100 residents turned up to a public meeting held by the parish council in June, when villagers first expressed their concerns about the proposals.

MRW could submit an appeal to Warwickshire County Council.